Cornell Research Associate on InSight Team Describes Awe of Mars Landing

By:
Maryam Zafar,
The Cornell Daily SunTue, 12/04/2018

“Everybody in the room was kind of on pins and needles,” said Don Banfield ’87, senior research associate, astronomy, describing a movie-like scene. Science team members who had worked on the InSight spacecraft for NASA sat and waited to hear whether the spacecraft had successfully landed last Monday.